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Photo: Late-shift elf at German Village bakery

Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoBrooke LaValley | DispatchBarbara Bowers packages holiday cookies in the last hour of her Christmas Eve shift at Bierberg Bakery in German Village. The bakery, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, is open only from October through December and uses cookie recipes the Bierbergs have passed down through generations.